Marc Marquez is back! The 29-year-old puts Honda on pole position for the JapaneseGP with a sensational effort in a wet qualifying. Full report and results: MotoGP
The Honda rider returned to action two weeks ago at Aragon after a three-month absence following a fourth major operation on the right arm he badly broke in 2020.
Though Q1 started as the rainfall intensified again, it had eased somewhat for the pole shootout session. Though a number of riders would threaten Marquez’s pole, he would cement it with a 1m55.214s in the final three minutes to take his 91st MotoGP qualifying success by 0.208 seconds from Zarco. A big rear-end moment late on in Q2 would stop an angry Quartararo from improving on ninth, while his nearest title rival Francesco Bagnaia was 2.1s off the pace down in 12th on his Ducati.
Between Quartararo and Bagnaia came Luca Marini on his VR46 Ducati and the second factory Honda of Pol Espargaro.
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